{"id":378,"date":"2016-10-07T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/?p=378"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T19:34:55","slug":"quiet-time-10716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/quiet-time-10716\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal-Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.<\/em> (Luke <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1503656988\"><span class=\"aQJ\">14:33<\/span><\/span> ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever thought to yourself: what if I give up everything? Moreover, can I\u00a0give up everything? Our maybe even just somethings? If Jesus said this to me, I would cry. Most things I can live without, but if I had to give up my phone or my computer, I may call that a deal-breaker. In fact, you may even\u00a0say that those things that we hang on to, define us. As a result, they are deal-breakers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you have deal-breakers in your life as well. Whether it&#8217;s your phone, car, job, home, relationships, coffee, etc; we all have something, when pushed, that would make us seriously question whether we would give it up and follow Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>None of us are really that extreme, are we? I know I&#8217;m not. But Jesus wants us to be extreme, extremely in love with him so that we would be defined by love&#8211;his love. His love that saves by grace for people who don&#8217;t deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>I want us to consider the deal-breakers we have in life that stop us from wholeheartedly following Jesus and ask yourself: are these things really worth it? Does our salvation and our relationship with God amount to less than our deal-breaker? Jesus wants us to pursue him with everything we have, and if we can&#8217;t give up something we have for him, we may lose out on everything we have to offer God in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33 ESV) Have you ever thought to yourself: what if I give up everything? Moreover, can I\u00a0give up everything? Our maybe even just somethings? If Jesus said this to me, I would cry. Most things I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/quiet-time-10716\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deal-Breakers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nyhanmaum.org\/EM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}